Sojourner Truth





Sojourner Truth

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born
Swartekill, New York, The United States

died
November 26, 1883

gender
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Sojourner Truth (1797–November 26, 1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of Isabella Baumfree, an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York. Her best-known speech, "Ain't I a Woman?," was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.


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Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Three Narratives of Slavery
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Book of Life
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The Faber Book Of America
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Narrative Of Sojourner Truth
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More books by Sojourner Truth…
“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
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“I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
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“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.”
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